Pekanbaru, Nov. 26 -- President Joko Widodo has granted clemency to former Riau governor Annas Maamun convicted of corruption in a case of land conversion in Kuantan Singingi District, Riau Province, his lawyer said. "After I checked it, it turned out to be true," Eva Nora told ANTARA here Tuesday.

Her client has applied for clemency to the President on his own or through his family, Eva believed.

"Any convict or his/her family can apply for clemency to the President directly without his/her lawyer," she said.

Maamun, the 10th governor of Riau, who was in office for seven months from February to September 2014, will have his sentence commuted by one year, she said.

As such, Annas who was sentenced to seven years in jail will be set fr...